9Qantas to maintain a register of shares in which foreign persons have a relevant interest

9 Qantas to maintain a register of shares in which foreign persons have a relevant interest

(1) Qantas must on and after the day on which Qantas first becomes aware that a person, other than the Commonwealth or a nominee of the Commonwealth, has acquired voting shares in Qantas, maintain a register of: (a) shares that are acknowledged in writing by the registered owner of those shares to be shares in which a foreign person has a relevant interest; or (b) shares that the directors of Qantas have, after reasonable inquiries, declared to be shares in which a foreign person has a relevant interest. (2) If the Minister gives Qantas a written request that Qantas give to him or her the register or a copy of the register at such reasonable time and reasonable place as the Minister specifies, Qantas must give the Minister the register or the copy of the register, as the case requires, in accordance with the request. (3) For the purposes of this section, a person has a relevant interest in a share if, and only if, the person would be taken to have a relevant interest in the share for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 if paragraph 608(3)(a) of that Act were disregarded. (4) In this section:

foreign person has the same meaning as in section 7.

registered owner means the person who appears in the register of members as the holder of the shares.

register of members has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act 2001.